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Pork Hall of Shame
Posted by Dominic Rupprecht - August 13, 2007And now presenting The Pork Wall of Shame for the Biggest Porkers in the 2007 House Appropriations Season:
- John Murtha (D-PA): $179,802,000.00
- C.W. Bill Young (R-FL): $128,875,000.00
- Jerry Lewis (R-CA): $109,595,000.00
- David Obey (D-WI): $94,278,000.00
- Peter Visclosky (D-IN): $79,592,000.00
- Steny Hoyer (D-MD): $72,890,238.00
- Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): $67,611,000.00
- Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) : $62,973,632.00
- David Hobson (R-OH) : $60,316,500.00
- Todd Tiahrt (R-KS): $55,275,000.00
All was not lost, however, as twelve members requested zero earmarks (including Minority Leader John Boehner):
- John Boehner (R-OH): $0
- Paul Broun (R-GA): $0
- John Campbell (R-CA): $0
- Eric Cantor (R-VA): $0
- Jeff Flake (R-AZ): $0
- Vito Fossella (R-NY): $0
- Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) : $0
- John Kline (R-MN): $0
- Joe Pitts (R-PA): $0
- John Shadegg (R-AZ): $0
- Lee Terry (R-NE): $0
- Mac Thornberry (R-TX): $0
For more information on the 2007 House Appropriations Season click
here.
UPDATE: Reader Nick rightly points out that I forgot to include Eric Cantor on the list. Cantor, deserves a big pat on the back for his restrain this appropriations season. When doing a double check after Nick made his observation, I noticed I had also left off Joe Pitts and Lee Terry, both of whom also requested $0. Sorry about the confusion.
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nick said on Aug 13 2007 at 7:00am
Is there a complete list somewhere? I'd like to see how my congressman did. Thanks.
Dominic Rupprecht said on Aug 13 2007 at 7:22am
I'm working on getting the full excel file up. In the meantime, you can search for individual members using the second table I created in this post: http://blog.ntu.org/main/post.php?post_id=2437.
Sorry for not having something more user-friendly (yet)!
Dominic Rupprecht said on Aug 13 2007 at 7:26am
Just to follow up on my previous comment, you can search the table by typing your Congressman's name into the "search" tab below the table (you first need to obviously click on the table). Your Congressman's box will then be highlighted in yellow and you can click on the box to find more details.
If you'd like to see how your state delegation did, just rearrange the tabs on the top of the table so "state" is the first tab (all you need to do is click and drag). The table should then be rearranged by the size of the state delegation's earmark requests.
I hope this helps, if not feel free to email.
Ali A. Akbar said on Aug 16 2007 at 4:50am
Is the reader Nick a employee of Cantor's staff.
Nonetheless, Bravo. Glad to see some Republicans starting to walk the talk.
Why couldn't we do it in power?
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